full socket buffers

[Mirek Lauš]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:38 PM, David Forrest <drf at maplepark.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Mirek Lauš wrote:
>
>> According to this: http://www.29west.com/docs/THPM/udp-buffer-sizing.html
>> the kern.ipc.maxsockbuf is the right oid. The problem only occurs after
>> few days
>> of dhcpd process running then it begins do drop UDP randomly forcing us to
>> restart dhcpd process. Then everything goes well for few days again. Now
>> I really don't know where to look for help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Miroslav
>
> Perhaps a cron job restarting dhcpd during an inactive time period every
> couple days would stop the problem from affecting your users.

Yes. But I don't like this solution because it is not a solution. It
is a workaround.
We would not be able to find the real cause of the issue.

Regards,Miroslav